“I Find The Pastrami To Be The Most Sensual Of All The Salted Cured Meats”

George Costanza It’s been quite a while since we’ve had cable television in the Ashby household. Most of my TV has come from either rabbit ears, or BitTorrent, so when we sit down to watch the boob tube it’s a bit of a challenge. Either the picture is fuzzy and peppered with artifacts, or I have to boot the laptop and find the show I want to watch. If it’s not downloaded already, then I get to watch it the next day. :s

Feeling as if Holly had suffered too long from being about to watch CMT and GAC, I finally broke down and ordered it for her. Comcast came out this week to install digital cable and I’m happy to report that it went without a hitch. Wanting to “test the system,” I bounced around a few channels and explored the online guide. Since it’s digital cable, there’s a programming guide that shows you what’s coming up. Scanning the channels, I came across my much beloved, and sorely missed station — channel 72, OLN.

2133 days ago • television

Interview With Alexis Hinds Posted

Computer Outlook Radio Show with John Iasiuolo

The podcast from June 21^st with Blue Nomad’s founder Alexis Hinds has been posted on the Computer Outlook web site.

I’ve been a big fan of just about every one of Blue Nomad’s products, such as WordSmith and BackupBuddy. Alexis was a great guest and blended technical skills with plain talk that made it easy to learn what each of her products do. I was really surprised at how BackupBuddy.net worked — especially the trickle backup feature.

You can download the podcast at this link. Show notes can be found at this link.

2143 days ago • radio

My Favorite “Superman Returns” Review

We saw Superman Returns at the Stardust Drive-in last night and I loved it. Instead of waxing poetic on the whys and what nots, I think the following review sums it up perfectly — PVP Online.

2144 days ago • movies

Can I Choose Purple?

ABC News Special - State Of The Union: A Country Divided Last night, Holly and I were watching TV and there wasn’t much on, so when we came across the 20/20 Special “State Of The Union: A Country Divided“, we watched the introduction to the show. As George Stephanopoulos gave an overview of what was to come and showed clips of what we would be seeing, I was startled to see one of my clients being interviewed! Nothing else had our attention, so we stayed tuned to watch more.

The basic premise of the show was that the United States is more divided than ever, polarized if you will, between liberal (blue state) and conservative (red state). So George showed the small town of Montclair, New Jersey to illustrate a blue state community and then Franklin, Tennessee as a red state community. That’s where my client came in. H. Leonard Issacs is a reverend for a church in Franklin, among other faith based endeavors, and he leads a mens prayer group in Darryl Waltrip’s home.

2147 days ago • television

Palm TV Ads Online

I’m a HUGE fan of the Palm OS operating system, aka Palm Pilots. Have been since 1997 when I bought a used Pilot 1000. As a rabid fan, I’ve collected as much Palm stuff as possible. One of the things that I dug up many years ago were some television ads that Palm did. Not being a huge company with a huge marketing budget, television advertising is not something that Palm has done a lot of. Many of their ads never made it to TV, but were used for trade shows and the like.

This morning, I was reading Mike Mace’s article “We need a new mobile platform. Sort of.” and he made reference to the Palm Ad “A Perfect Day” and the fact that he couldn’t find the video online. I decided to do my ~~civic~~ geeky duty and upload the video to YouTube.com. Not wanting to stop there, I decided to upload all the videos I’ve collected over the years.
The playlist and the embedded player below, have the videos in date order as best as I can tell. There are 6 videos in all — enjoy.

2150 days ago • television

Steve Sinclair & John Chaffee Interview Posted

Computer Outlook Radio Show with John Iasiuolo

Last Thursday, I co-hosted the Computer Outlook radio show. Our guests were Steve Sinclair, Treo 700p Sr. Product Manager, with Palm and John Chaffee, with Six Apart.

Steve of course talked about the recently released Treo 700p, going through all the details of this new smartphone (which I want REALLY bad). John got us up to speed on what’s been happening with SplashBlog since selling it to Six Apart and starting as their specialist in mobile solutions.

Show notes for this episode can be found at this link, and the .mp3 file can be found at this link.

2186 days ago • radio

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